Well, I've been following this topic and journey with increasing GAS in the last few months, that finally this new year, just today, I got my hands into an Ermanox, an f1.8 / 85mm model. I intend to use it, mainly with Jason Lane dry plates (as I have experience with his plates in several other formats).
This one was listed as working, but less that I had hoped. Also came completely alone, even without lens cap. Fortunately I managed to get 3 Ermanox holders from a separate sale, and several other 4,5x6 holders (Goerz, for example, that may not work). But even as the shutter fires, I can't get into the fastest position of the shutter and worse, the tension lever is stuck at position 12 and doest not move, not even in Z or O modes (where it should return to 1 on it's own), that fire as normal speeds, so no ground glass focusing is possible. The release is a bit hard, as it is the focus helical. Oh, and on the curtain there's a tiny string of pinholes close to the metal part.
Even another problem is that the finder has no diopter so composition should be more a guess. In fact I think that the whole finder was taken from another Ernemann, as it has a speeds table completely different and in English (even as the lens is in meters, not feet). There's a correct (and German) table inside the cover of the ground glass, the original one, I presume.
So now I must take this camera for a CLA... or return it in these next two weeks.
Any ideas for a recomended repair, specially if this could be inside the EU? Okvintagecamera in Russia? Or 3rcamera in the US, maybe?
